TO V. A. KARPINSKY

Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from Berne to Geneva.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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January 3, 1915

DearFriends,

Manythanks for your greetings, and from all of us also
(from Nadezhda Konstantinovna and me in particular) best
wishes for the new year!

AParis compositor has offered to come to Geneva and
set the C.O. for35 francsan issue, if we find a printing
press which will provide him with the
type.[1]

Discussthisfrom all points of view(reduction of expenses
is desirable, because we have decided to publish the C.O.
weekly) and reply as soon as you can.

Furthermore,consider also when the material should
be sent in, by what day everything should be ready and
for what day publication should be timed in the interests
of circulation. It would seem that the most convenient day
for circulation is Saturday. If so, should it be published on
Wednesday or Thursday? So that we should have it here on
Friday, and the whole of Switzerland by Saturday.

Allthe best,Yours,Lenin

[1]TheCentral Committee Section Abroad did not have a printing
shop of its own, and the Central Organ was set up at a private
type-setting shop belonging to Lyakhotsky, an old Ukrainian
émigré (well known among political émigrés as Kuzma), and
printed in Geneva. Lyakhotsky’s type-setting shop was the only
one in Switzerland which had Russian type, and so catered forvarious organisations. The setting ofSotsial-Demokratbecame
extremely difficult in early 1915, whenBorotba, a newspaper
of the Ukrainian nationalists, was also composed there. Kuzma
and Kuzmikha (his wife), who had great influence on her
husband, sympathised withBorotba. The problem was being
constantly discussed and this is reflected in Lenin’s and N. K.
Krupskaya s letters to V. A. Karpinsky and others. In early 1915,
Russian type was found in Benteli’s printing shop in Bumplitz
(near Berne) and a number of issues ofSotsial-Demokratand
other material were printed there.

Thesuggestion to send a compositor from Paris apparently
came from G. Y. Belenky, but it was not implemented.